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It is true, it can be very hard to find any ready made offerings for a given railroad, but on the good side, there are decal sets available in the correct font, size and lettering colors for practically every fallen flag and current railroad. What I have done is find the closest body style I can get, make a few modifications to make it believable for the prototype with add-on detail parts, airbru***he correct colors and then apply the decals in the right location and there you have it, the right caboose to match era. I use photographs available on the internet railroad sites to help in making alterations for the prototype. For example: I wanted the C-50 style caboose for Southern Pacific in the failed merger kodachrome paint scheme, of which only one caboose was ever painted and only two photographs exist, so it was a real challenge to even figure out what it looked like! What I would love to see from manufacterers is models of a given prototype, like the C-50's, but make things like the battery and storage boxes removable parts and include a couple variations of smokejacks, antennae and blanks to fill in windows, so matching prototype variations would be much easier for us folks that aren't talented enough for scratch-building and kitbashing. <br /> <br />Ken from Oregon, way out west.
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